Wellstar Health System’s recent Women’s Health Summit brought together a powerful community of clinicians, innovators, and advocates to explore how we can advance care for women at every stage of life. The event was a celebration of progress and a call to action, underscoring that women’s health is more than a specialty; it’s a lifelong journey that deserves better infrastructure, awareness, and support.
Among the highlights: participation from Dr. Paula Greaves, Chief Women’s Health Officer at Wellstar, and Janine, co-founder of Elektra Health, a Catalyst portfolio company, who shared reflections on the critical gaps and opportunities in women’s healthcare.
Leading With Compassion and Clarity
As one of the summit’s most influential voices, Dr. Paula Greaves addressed the need to shift from reactive care to preventive, person-centered health, particularly in how health systems support women through transitions like adolescence, pregnancy, menopause, and aging.
Dr. Greaves emphasized that women’s health is not episodic; it’s longitudinal. She championed breaking down silos across specialties and encouraged collaborations between health systems and innovators. Her message was clear: to care for women holistically, we must design care that reflects their lived experiences, not just their clinical diagnoses.
Janine of Elektra Health: “We Must Lock Arms”
In a post-summit reflection, Janine, co-founder of Elektra Health, shared her insights on the urgency of innovation in menopause care, an area long neglected in mainstream health conversations.
“Elektra has been working with women navigating the perimenopause into the post-menopausal transition,” she said. “We identified three major gaps: access to trustworthy education and information, a supportive community to combat isolation and stigma, and access to menopause-trained medical care”.
That spirit of collaboration is central to our mission. By supporting startups like Elektra, Catalyst is investing in solutions that fill overlooked gaps, ensuring that innovation doesn’t just reach women, but centers around them.
Dr. Greaves sees the partnership as essential.
“Menopause—especially perimenopause—can be confusing and debilitating, yet it’s rarely discussed. It affects all women, and yet it remains shrouded in silence,” she said. “That’s why Elektra is so important: it brings real support to women who often feel they’re navigating this phase of life alone.
Moving Forward
The Women’s Health Summit made one thing unmistakably clear: the future of women’s health is collaborative, continuous, and courageous. With leaders like Dr. Greaves and founders like Janine building agile solutions, we are charting a better path, one that listens to women, learns from them, and designs care around their full spectrum of needs.
